Dear Bill-- Not a problem. I was just wondering out loud if there was a procedure called a glossectomy? And after googling, I see there is. Didn't US Grant have one? Or did he just die of tongue cancer? In re your other two words: is there a difference between glossalgia and glossodynia?

Dear jheem: I don't remember seeing either of those wordsbefore I found them a few minutes ago. I see no likely difference. Never heard of Pres.Grant's problem. Oral cancers from snuff are not rare, but I'll bet they hit the cheeks or gums first. Good thing lies don't cause cancer. Or maybe fear of it would encourage veracity. Trying to think of a fancy word for Pinocchio's problem.

Yes, Bill, I thought what is it about Pinocchio's nose. Sure it grows, but it's also as a punishment for his lying. Greek has trouble with this sort of compounding, but Sanskrit would be perfect for it, sometimes combining a whole bunch of words together into a 4 or n word compound. Let me think about it and get back to you.

The Greeks were reputed masters of the art of wilful misrepresentation to achieve goals. Odysseus was muchadmired for his skill at deception. If Greeks had aPinocchio, he would have been rewarded by enlargementof the phallus, not punished by protrusion of the proboscis.

In thinking about infant on father's knee, it occurred to methat the Roman diaper service was so inadequate that to takean alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and noreponsibility at the other onto the paternal knee would havenot been at all appealing.

Dear Faldage: Old Zeus must have been c...headed. Twice?After a time Zeus developed the mother of all headaches. He howled so loudly it could be heard throughout the earth. The other gods came to see what the problem was. Hermes realized what needed to be done and directed Hephaestus to take a wedge and split open Zeus's skull. Out of the skull sprang Athena, full grown and in a full set of armour. Due to her manor of birth she has dominion over all things of the intellect.

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